N201MKTurbo

G100UL is what it is. It isn’t like George is going to fix it. It seems to burn well in out engines, but eats our paint. I hope flying with paint stripper in our tanks isn’t our new reality. If it is, we will eventually learn to deal with it. And we will have to pay for the mitigations. Sucks….

We are not dead in the water. Someone could make them under PMA.

Yes, I do remove them to jack the plane.

I have never removed the tie downs on either of my Mooneys. I would probably get another 15-20 KTS if I took then off. The drag has to be way less than mounting a camera on your plane….

So they are twice that now. That was a long time ago….

At cruise, if the pressure actually drops that low the engine will stumble. The later models with the electric gauges, have been known to do that sort of thing.

I would mouse milk the waste gate.

For a friend with a C180, he had Alaska Bush Wheels. I just listed the weight, arm and moment at the bottom of the W&B for the regular wheels and for the big wheels.

Mooneys are tough airplanes, they can take it. Some people have to park their cars in the driveway instead of the garage. Life is tough all over.

There is no easy way around this. If you have a mag timer and know how to use it, there is a lot you can do. The first thing is to check the timing on #1, and #3. That will check both sides of the cam. Check both sides of the mag. At this point you will know almost everything that can go wrong, except the distributor gear slipping and a condenser or coil failing. You need a spark gap tester to figure these out.

It is very hard to find this info. I spent a whole night searching for it. Google is worthless anymore.

I looked it up a while back, I think there are three company’s making TEL. One in Russia, one in China and one in the UK.

I had my old Mooney tied down on the ramp at Tucson once. A T storm came through and it unbent the chain hooks and the plane got loose. I didn’t see any of this, but the guys from the FBO said it was crazy it went skittering across the ramp and was stopped by a King Air about 200 feet away. Remarkably the only damage was a small dent on one elevator trailing edge and a paint scrape on the King Air’s prop. Me and the King Air’s pilot looked at our planes, shook hands and went on our way. So, the plane would have drug those concrete blocks like they weren’t even there.

OK, Fine, we will do the approach back into KCHD.... It's just a pain, you have to talk to Phoenix to get that one. Probably faster to just do another in the stack.

Why not? It will do everything on the list.

I could do all that with two approaches at the stack. We would do the unusual attitudes on the way to the stack and fly an arc to POTER. It would be about an hour.

When I sold my 06 Tacoma, it had 180000 on it. It still had the factory front pads. The whole time I owned it I practiced hypermiling, so I was loth to hit the brakes. They were only to hold you at a light. I inspected the pads every year or so. they were still good.

If I was parked on the dirt for a year, I would come out on a Sunday when the city folks are not there and dig down a couple of feet and bury some concrete blocks or steel bars with chains and then fill the holes back in and pack the dirt down.

The runways were federal money, I would like to see the city or county fix the roads on the city side. They were embarrassing last time I was there.

I wouldn't worry about it.

My wife was just cleaning the oven. She was using this stuff called Scrub Daddy Power Paste. She was telling me how great it works. I read the ingredients and didn't find anything that would hurt the aluminum or the paint. It has a clay based abrasive, which is probably OK on urethane paint. I did a wing repair a couple of years ago and the paint was a little speckled. I color sanded the top of the wing 3 days after spraying. it polished up just fine. I left the bottom for another day. Six months later I went to color sand the bottom and 2500 sandpaper would hardly touch it. So I don't think a clay based abrasive would do any damage. I ended up using Comet cleanser on the bottom of the Cessna. it didn't hurt the paint. I think the clay in this stuff is less aggressive than the super fine limestone powder in the cleanser. https://scrubdaddy.com/product/powerpaste

340275-27 They stopped putting them in with the J. Laser has one of the M20F throttle quadrant covers with the ash tray mount. Oh, I see you have a 78 with push pull controls. No ash tray for you.

You could put the ash tray back in.

It has to do with the oil holes in the rod journals in the crank. The oil holes are drilled so they ar at the highest pressure point in the rotation as the piston comes down. This gives the thickest and strongest oil film at that point. When the engine is being driven, the pressure is applied on the opposite side of the bearing where the oil flow and film strength is lowest. I believe there are some torsional resonance issues with some prop engine combinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect